diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ If you keep your application data (like recommended) on a separate partition, th
 to interact with this, as most configuration files will be in the nix store anyway. If the application wants these nix
 store files in certain directories you should use `environment.etc` family of options (consult the nixos documentation
 for this). This is for mutable files that are not core application data. (Like ssh keys, for a mailserver one could
-think about the hash files (not the db files) of an alias map (if one don't want to manage that with
+think about the hash files (not the db files) of an alias map (if one doesn't want to manage that with
 the nix store), things like that).
 
 This should not be (but could be) used for large application databases. It would be more appropriate to mount